The Rod & Greg Show

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Friday, August 7, 2026

Amanda Head, White House Correspondent for Just the News and host of the Furthermore podcast, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about her piece in which she writes the upcoming midterm elections are a contest of flaws.

Daniel Lipinski, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, joins the show to discuss his piece for the Wall Street Journal about how Democratic Socialism is more dangerous than the GOP’s Tea Party insurgency.

Gary Gygi of Gygi Capital Management joins the show for a conversation about the latest jobs numbers, which show the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, but is that the whole story?

Andrew Arthur, Resident Fellow in Law and Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies, joins the show to discuss the migrant surge in Ceuta and the related Supreme Court decision that everyone seems to have missed.

We’ll listen back to this week’s conversations with Kevin McCullough on his Townhall piece about the “woke” attitudes amongst coaches in the WNBA, and with Liana Graham of the Heritage Foundation about Gen Z’s marriage fears.

A new episode of CEO’s You Should Know with Cedro Toro of Avary Drone.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Thursday, August 6, 2026

Mateo Forero, Director of Investigations for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, joins the program to discuss their recent report about how anti-borders politicians and bureaucrats have “quietly turned the national commercial driver’s license program into a de-facto permission slip for foreign nationals”

Glenn Beaton, a columnist with Aspen Beat, joins the program for a conversation about his piece in which he says we should just give poor people more money by developing a negative tax rate.

Trent England, Founder of Save Our States, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about his piece in the National Review about how Democrats are now backing off the idea of ranked choice voting.

Economist Steve Moore, co-founder of Unleash Prosperity, joins the show for his weekly conversation with Rod and Greg about politics and the nation’s economy, and today they’ll discuss how three states with Democrat governors have not opted in to the federal school choice program.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Scott McKay, Publisher of The Hayride and a contributor to American Spectator, joins the show to discuss his piece about how giving power to socialists is a bad idea because the reality is worse than the ideology.

Dan Lennington, Managing Vice President and Deputy Counsel for the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about his piece in The Federalist about how Madison, Wisconsin has become the poster child for what socialism in American would look like.

Author and political commentator Ian Haworth joins the show to discuss his piece about how Dr. Anthony Fauci is a symptom of weak-minded politicians in Washington, D.C.

4:20 pm: Utah Congressman Mike Kennedy joins Rod and Greg to discuss his op-ed in the Deseret News where he writes the federal government should give local authorities more power and opportunity to manage federal lands against wildfire, such as prescribed burns and timber thinning.

4:38 pm: Kevin McCullough, nationally syndicated radio host and contributor to Townhall, joins the program for a conversation about the “woke” attitudes amongst coaches in the WNBA and coaches refusing to define a “woman.

”6:05 pm: JP De Gance, Founder of Communio, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about his piece for Townhall about how reaching the American Dream – buying home, marriage, starting a family – seem an impossibility to many Americans.

6:38 pm: John Hinderaker of Powerline joins the show for a conversation about his recent piece that looks back on covid and compares mortality rates from then and now.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Friday, July 31, 2026

Joshua Monnington, Assistant Editor at The Federalist, joins the program to discuss his piece on how Barack Obama fathered today’s Marxist Democrat party.

Josh Wood, Executive Director of Them Before Us, joins Rod and Greg to discuss his piece in The Federalist about how the Left will never be able to erase both moms and dads.

jennifer Weber, K-12 Education Policy Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, joins the program to discuss how anti-disciplinary policies in schools have not worked to control student misbehavior.

Conn Carroll, Commentary Editor for the Washington Examiner, joins the show to discuss his reaction piece about the Texas State Board of Education’s decision to require bible passages be read in public schools.

Today’s CEO You Should Know is Scott Porter of San Diablo Artisan Churros.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Thursday, July 30, 2026

Jim Antle, Politics Editor for the Washington Examiner, joins the program for a conversation about his piece on the different paths Democrats can take in the fight over socialism.

Economist Steve Moore, co-founder of Unleash Prosperity, joins the show for his weekly visit with Rod and Greg about politics and the nation’s economy, and today they’ll discuss this week’s Fauci hearing and how Fauci’s wrote in his diaries that he wanted to shut Steve up.

Tyler O’Neil, Senior Investigative Reporter at the Daily Signal, joins the program for a conversation about his piece on how things are progressing for people who have sued for medical malpractice after undergoing experimental treatment to change their genders.

Naomi Schaefer Riley, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins the show to discuss her piece for the Deseret News about the everchanging definition, and cost, of adulthood.

Utah Congressman Burgess Owens says there are progressives from the left infiltrating Utah’s GOP primary elections, and he joins Rod and Greg to discuss his concerns about left-leaning organizations taking hold in Utah.  Plus, Jeffrey Anderson, President of the American Main Street Initiative, joins the program to discuss his piece for Real Clear Politics about the taming of the woke messaging at the President’s House site in Philadelphia.

Jennifer Galardi, Senior Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation, joins Rod and Greg to discuss the release of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diaries and his decision to invoke the Fifth Amendment to every question from a Senate panel today, and what it means going forward. Plus, Curtis Houck, Managing Editor at Newsbusters at the Media Research Center, joins the program for a conversation about how television networks managed their coverage of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s contentious Senate hearing today.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Tuesday, July 28, 2026

4:20 pm: David Harsanyi, Senior Writer for the Washington Examiner, joins the show for a conversation about his piece about how neither political party is talking about subjects their voters care about.

4:38 pm: Karl Abramson, External Affairs Manager for the Manhattan Institute, joins the show for a conversation about the results of a new poll on American attitudes about welfare, waste, crime and the political environment.

6:05 pm: Brianna Lyman, Elections Correspondent for The Federalist, joins the program for a conversation about how the Shiloh Hendrix prosecution in Minnesota is proof of the Left goal of criminalizing speech.

6:38 pm: Stacey Matthews, aka Sister Toldjah, a contributor to RedState, joins Rod and Greg to discuss how the online food police have caused her, and others, to stop posting food photos online.